ELA-390-1 lxml security update

missing input sanitization

2021-03-24
Packagelxml
Version3.4.0-1+deb8u4
Related CVEs CVE-2021-28957


An issue has been found in lxml, a pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. Due to missing input sanitization, XSS is possible for the HTML5 formaction attribute.



For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.0-1+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your lxml packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.